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I get 5 to 6 hours a night, I work out close to 2 hours a day, eat around 2000 healthy calories, work 5 days a week have normal blood pressure and do intermittent fasting AND am not a young fella. The 8 hrs a night is just an arbitrary number based on loose science.
I have this theory that when I sleep 6 hours it’s more deep and restful. If I sleep more it seems less deep. It’s like a workday when we reduce the hours we tend to be more productive.
That makes sense - the longer we sleep, the more lighter sleep we get, since our deepest and most restorative sleep happens in the first few hours of sleep.
Interesting! After a certain amount of sleep, the rest of our sleep is going to be lighter and more fragmented - and this longer period of reduced sleep quality might heighten our feelings of fatigue.
@@InsomniaCoachthat's how I feel to when I sleep more like 8 to 10 hours it's like I feel more groggy an delirious though out the day it's probably because I'm putting to much effort to get more than what I need.
the 8 hours sleep myth lead me to insomnia and all nighters for half a year. i was lying around looking at the clock and struggling to get 8 hours. and in case i get 8 hours continuously on a daily basis for 4 or 5 days, i won´t be able to sleep on the 6th day. the hours of sleep i indeed need is somewhere between 4 and 6 hours and i function perfectly. less that 4 hours however are too less for me
I am so happy to hear this, Cynthia! We all have an individual sleep requirement, just as we all have an individual shoe size. There is no "one size fits all" when it comes to sleep!
great video! I had a mate who used to work two jobs and was on 2 hours of sleep a night lol, you dont need 8, youll be completely fine, but becareful driving
I can sleep but not 8 hour straight, i usually sleep at 10 but suddenly woke up at 1 or 2 and i feel good ,but at 8 or 9 i feel exhausted but i cant sleep is this normal ?
If you go to bed around 10:00 PM and get out of bed around 8:00/9:00 AM then you are spending up to eleven hours in bed. When we are sedentary for that long, it's not unusual to feel a sense of fatigue. You might want to try setting yourself up with a sleep window to reduce the amount of time spent in bed to more closely match your average nightly sleep duration. Here's some more information on that: insomniacoach.com/sleep-restriction-therapy/
For proper muscle recovery and fat loss, do you actually need that much sleep? I'm only asking because between trying to be successful and looking good in the process... It's really hard to decide. Time is your greatest asset and I'm losing time when I sleep.
Here's the thing - we can't make ourselves get a certain amount of sleep. When we try, we tend to make sleep more difficult. All we can do is give ourselves enough time to sleep and let the body take care of the rest.
Always been my problem for now when I sleep at 11PM then I had 2-3 awakenings at midnight I wake up at 6 AM then I will compute the sleep I had like I lost 30 minutes trying to get back to sleep during awakenings and I try to get back to sleep till 8 AM.
It's not unusual to spend around 30 minutes awake during the night - a small amount of wakefulness during the night is actually a normal part of sleep!
I am an endurance athlete and i always plan to sleep 8hrs but i always end up 6hrs of sleep and it is just automatic once i reached 6hrs i wake up. Is it bad for an athlete? I am 33yo. Cheers from Philippines!
I don't know of any evidence that says sleeping six hours is bad for an athlete. In any case, you cannot control sleep duration - your body takes care of that all by itself!
That would be outside my area of expertise, unfortunately. What I can say is that the body prioritizes the deepest, most restorative sleep so I would guess that less sleep is needed than many people might think.
Are you currently getting eight hours of sleep at night, Ghazzy? If so, that's great - some people are able to consistently generate eight hours of sleep each night, but I think they're in the minority!
Not really. You are still developing and sleep is much more important for you than others that are older. You should actually strive for the full 8 hours
According to the National Sleep Foundation, it's thought that teenagers without a sleep disorder should get around eight to 10 hours of sleep, but seven to 11 hours may be appropriate for some. With that being said, happy and healthy people exist outside of average ranges, so you might want to determine whether you're getting enough sleep based on how you feel.
@@InsomniaCoach umm I'm 14 years and sometimes I get like 4 or 5 hours sleep the other day maybe like 7 or 8 hours Is it gonna affect anything? I don't feel too tired and all though. I sleep late at night like it'll be atleast 3am everyday and wake at 7 or 8
@@neutrino137 If you are spending more than five hours in bed every night then I would expect you to be getting more than five hours of sleep at your age. If you get less than five hours of sleep on most nights I would suggest talking to a doctor. If you only get less than five hours of sleep every now and then, that is not too unusual because we all have nights of less sleep every now and then.
The recommended sleep duration for someone aged 18 is 7 to 9 hours but it's recognized that 6 to 11 hours may be appropriate, too. Happy and healthy people always exist outside of the established "averages".
You're giving the impression you believe everyone is the same and we're not. Personally I function best sfter 8 hours uninterrupted sleep. Otherwise im a beeotch. That's me.
Does every person who averages seven hours of sleep generate less testosterone than every person who averages eight hours of sleep? I wonder if more goes into "body production" and testosterone production than the number of hours of sleep we get?
Its rediculous to say you don't need 8 hours of sleep. Wait til you reach 86 like me, and then you will find out that you will need more that 8 hours of sleep.
The ideal way to go about pretty much anything involving your body is to listen to it and understand it. Eat when you actually are hungry rather than peckish, sleep when you are actually tired. If you’re at the office and you can’t focus, don’t force it, stand up and stretch maybe, use the restroom and try again. It really is that simple.
I think that's always the goal - if it doesn't seem to be working out for you, though, that's when you might consider being a bit more regimented with how much time you allot for sleep - at least for the short-term.
Thanks for this video. People be screaming pit left,right and centre to me that I should sleep more. Also, I would like to ask one thing as you mentioned 5½ hours. Is it okay if someone is taking less sleep and working perfectly fine. There might be something wrong with me but for some reasons I'm not able to sleep for more than 1½ or 2 hours at max in one go. Every night, I sleep for this amount of time and I wake up and I've started to drink water in that period but even if I do nothing I usually fell asleep again in few minutes for another same circle and in total I'm not able to sleep kore for than 4 hours and I feel I'm fully functional with that muvh amount as when I'm at home and I'm being forced to sleep more. I've felt I'm always sleep for whole day and unable to work. It feels like I'm always sleepy when I take more sleep. Is it okay that I'm fully functional at 4 hours of sleep or are they some kind of side effects of less sleep ? Thanks
A huuuugee relief!!!!! At 72 i have beenn Trying tto take care of my health really for the ffirst time in myy life and i feel fine. Laying here at 4 in rhe morning wanting to get up. Thank yyouuuuuu!!!!
I am 14 years old and I am good with 7-8 hours of sleep a night sometimes I just need 6 hours and sometimes I need 9 hours. And BTW I am Jacob Pacheco it is Dorothy Pacheco because I am on my mom's account
It might be - we all have our own sleep "requirement" and sleep duration is not something we can control, anyway! As long as we give our body the opportunity to sleep, it will generate (at the very least) the minimum amount of sleep we need.
I've been going to bed around 11:30 or 12 a.m. and waking up between 6 and 7 am, trying to get back to sleep for another hour I hear everything around me but obviously my body doesn't need that much and I wake up feeling good through the day. I might try to fall asleep or nap again around 3 p.m. in my office but I take a walk instead keep myself going.
Read me guys, I'm going on spontaneous amounts of sleep lately trying to get on track. Unfortunately I'm doubting I will ever get it perfect it seems like I'll have to live with what I can get. If I get at least 6 hrs I'll settle. Now I just need to adjust to a decent schedule bcuz I'm all over the place. Truth is I'm on like video 6 of ppl going back n forth on why 8 vs 6hrs are enuff blah blah truthfully I just stopped after suddenly realizing my brother sleeps HOURS this man sleeps on command granted I think he has cognitive issues (genuinely) bcuz bless his heart he is slow af but he doesn't get ish done he's not getting any benefits from all his sleep so ppl seriously find your sweet spot & do your best. Dumb ppl & lazy ppl vs thinkers n doers will have different needs & experiences. What does it matter if you sleep 8hrs but you don't self improve. I'm done. Unfortunately I have bags under my eyes but it's too late lol I just gotta do better & improve where I can. I'm actually a very sharp guy. Just want to age well
Thanks for sharing! As you implied, sometimes it can be helpful to focus our attention on the things we *can* control that will help us live the kind of life we want to live, even in the presence of difficult or uncomfortable stuff that we cannot control.
Thanks for the great question! Typically, as we get older we experience less overall sleep and less deep sleep. That doesn't mean we are predestined to develop insomnia as we age, though - just that our sleep does change as we age! I covered this in a separate video: The importance of setting realistic sleep goals when you have chronic insomnia - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bHN76nQpMxo.html
